| 释义 |
Clipper, n.3 Computing and Telecomm.
Brit. |ˈklɪpə|, U.S. |ˈklɪpər|
[Origin unknown.]
In full Clipper Chip. A microchip which inserts an identifying code into encrypted transmissions that allows them to be deciphered by a third party having access to a Government-held key.
Developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, and proposed by the U.S. Government as a compulsory standard for data encryption technology.
1993San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News 17 Apr. 11 d/2 The technology..is a computer chip called the Clipper Chip that scrambles a telephone call or computer message using a secret algorithm. 1993Sci. Amer. Aug. 97/1 Clipper, as the chip is named, sends out a string of bits called a law enforcement field. Its purpose is to enable the police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to decode conversations that they wiretap pursuant to court order. 1994Computing 9 June 3/3 The US government is shrugging off reports that its controversial Clipper encryption technology is fatally flawed. 1997Internet World Jan. 18/1 Privacy advocates quickly savaged it as another incarnation of the widely derided Clipper Chip initiative. 2001Amer. Spectator (Nexis) June Vice President Gore called for forcing the ‘Clipper Chip’ into every PC. |